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An increasing importance is placed on various economic metrics for decision making (e.g. employment, economic strength) and yet this information is largely presented without historical context, in superficial headlines, from sources with differing incentives.
An auditable, graphical, and automatically updated source for public consumption based on publicly-available data.
Sources:
- Retail Sales
- Employment [sector growth]
- Residential Real Estate [price index, listings, sales]
- Manufacturing [new orders]
- Freight [trucking price index, railcar loads, seaport TEUs]
- Construction [new spend]
- International Trade [trade deficit, imports, exports]
- Consumer Credit [historical rates]
- US Stock Market [distribution of inflation adjusted S&P 500 returns, Benford test (WIP)]
- US Treasuries [yield curves, bid to cover ratios, interest rates]
- Consumer/Business Sentiment [OECD confidence indices]
- Commericial Credit [issuance, default rates]
- Central Bank Operations [repo market, quantitative easing] ...
ipynb website, the framework underlying this work was developed by:
Peter Carbonetto and Gao Wang
Dept. of Human Genetics
University of Chicago
John Blischak, Matthew Stephens and others have also contributed to the development of this software.